Railway-tie brace



H. C. BUNNELL.

RAILWAY TIE BRACE.

ICA FILED FEB.4,192I.

1,390,756. r PatentedSept. 13,1921.

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HOB-BY BUNNELL, OF WESI'PORT, NEW YORK.

RAILWAY-TIE BRACE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 13, 192 1.

Application filed February 4, 1921. Serial No. 442,436.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HORRY C. BUNNELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Westport, in the county of Essex and the btate of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway- Tie Braces, of which the following is a specification.

This is an improvement on the binding tie or brace shown and described in the atent granted to Inc September 28, 1920 10. 1,354,239.

The device as shown in said patent was placed between the usual wooden ties and supported only by the rails, being clamped to them.

In the present form the brace is also placed betwen the wooden ties but is extended beyond the rails and is supported by a novel cross piece resting transversely. on

the ties.

This method of support also involves certain minor changes of structure hereinafter described, pointed out in the claim and shown in the accompanying drawings 1n which p Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portlon of my device, a rail being in section.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of partsshown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the devlce.

In the above drawings I have shown only so much of the device as is necessary to illustrate the changes made in its construction.

In the drawing 1 indicates a rail and 2 the usual wooden tie. The brace connecting the track rails is formed in overlapping sections 3 and 4, as in the patent mentioned. A clamping member 5 has one end bearing on the inner side of the rail base and the opposite end on one of the brace sections. These clamping members are connected to the brace by bolts and nuts 6. They are substantially the same as in the form patented except that two bolts are employed in place of one.

e The brace extends under the rail, between the ties, and its outer end portion rests on a cross bar 7 The ends of this bar rest on adjacent ties. Midway its ends the bar is provided with a depressed offset 8 in which the brace section 3 rests, the depression in the bar 7 being sufficient to allow for the thickness of the brace, as its upper face is flush with the top of the ties.

An angled exterior bracing member 9 is connected at its lower angled end portion to the brace or tie section 3, or 4 as the case might be, by nuts and bolts 10, while its upper end engages the ball of the rail at its juncture with the web.

By means of this device the track rails are securely braced and tied together, thereby preventing spreading, and bracing the rail against tipping movement on curved stretches of the track.

What I claim is In a rail tie and brace, a sectional brace and tie extending under the rails andlying between the wooden ties, means for clamping the same to the rails, supporting mem bers resting transversely on adjacent ties and having depressed oflset portions adapted to receive the outer ends of the brace sections, and bracing means carried by the outer end portions of the said sections for engagin the underside of the rail ball at its point of juncture with the web, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

HORRY G. BUNNELL. 

